People in high-income countries could dramatically improve lives worldwide with minimal financial commitment, yet few do.| Our World in Data
GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities. This post describes our financial performance and impact in 2024.| The GiveWell Blog
This page logs mistakes we've made, ways in which our organization has failed or currently fails to live up to our values, and lessons we've learned. This page focuses on issues that could affect the impression that people external to the organization have of our work and its reliability. We don't list missteps whose main cost was to our productivity or our growth.| GiveWell
GiveWell tries to help donors do as much good as possible with each dollar they give. We aim to find outstanding giving opportunities and to publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. We do not aim to rate every charity, but to find the ones which we feel will maximize the impact of additional donations in terms of lives saved or improved.| GiveWell
This page shares our general approach to creating impact estimates for the programs and funding opportunities we recommend and walks through the decisions and judgment calls behind those estimates.| GiveWell
Donate to high-impact, cost-effective programs—backed by evidence and analysis Last updated: January 2025| GiveWell